#sorry this one has been in the works for awhile.like i’ve been thinking about this point all week

[sallytwo]

At this point if I were wesley yeah I wouldn't come back either. Everyone I love assumes I'm dead and I've been more or less replaced by my half-sibling in my own family. I'd escape that narrative too tbh.

FOR REAL! a lot of people are saying that the fact that wesley is out there (alive) and hasn’t stopped in to see his mom in 20 years is out of character. but like… remember. so much of wesley as a character in tng is him putting on an act for everyone else in order to live up to their expectations. and we see the consequences of this in journeys ends where after so many years of bottling that up he’s angry and bitter and feels guilty about hurting his family but that doesn’t change anything. (and this is directly shown in the deleted scene. that they deleted). and when we see him leave he’s … really not much better? i think hopefully off being a traveler helps him get over some of that (using ‘get better’ in very loose terms here). so there’s the assumption that since he got better, of course he would return to his ‘old self’ and of COURSE he would come back.

but the more interesting reading is like. maybe he could be happy in his new life and still not want to return. obviously it’s not black and white because the things he went through weren’t directly beverly or the crews fault. but he was a kid and they were there when those things happened and didn’t how badly that fucked him up until too late. like beverly was dealing with her own grief from jacks death i say again she really is not at fault here. but i think it would make sense wesley could still be bitter.

and yes it is an asshole move to not let your mother know you’re alive! especially after bev and wes were the only family each other had for so long and he knew firsthand what it was like dealing with the grief from jacks death (THE ORIGINAL). but as a 20/21 year old i don’t think he was thinking about how leaving would hurt everyone around him because he was caught up in feeling how he was hurt and angry and betrayed. and that decision hurt beverly! that sucks! from an objective standpoint he’s in the wrong here but you can see so clearly where it comes from.

i guess it’s just easier to say that wesley must be sad about not seeing the crew/not be able to return for [x plot reason] rather than saying . well maybe he’s happy in his new life and maybe he still doesn’t want to go back. and yes that decision hurt his mom and a lot of other people but it wasn’t directly anyones fault. it’s just a bunch of characters dealing with situations they didn’t realize they could change until they were on the other side. GOD PICARD WRITERS. THERE IS SO MUCH YOU COULD’VE DONE WITH THE CRUSHER FAMILY AND YOU DID NONE OF IT. I HATE YOU!!!

#sorry this one has been in the works for awhile.like i’ve been thinking about this point all week #it’s suchhhhhhh an interseting charcater intrepreation that s super intersting to think about. but god. star trek would never care. #talk